Saving Cormac McCarthy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21792246 |
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| Authors | Amanda K Parris (University of San Francisco, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 129-134 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative and Continental Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-0638 • E-ISSN: 1757-0646 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17570638.2023.2234699 |
| OpenAlex | W4384205742 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
A review of Patrick O’Connor’s Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned. O’Connor argues that McCarthy is a literary philosopher of tragic ontology. While acknowledging that tragic ontology is a powerful lens for analyzing McCarthy, whose characters are unwitting heirs of generations of human and a-human forces, the review also points to the problems with reading McCarthy as a philosopher of mitigated salvation or redemption, proposing that he is better understood as a pessimist who reveals the lie of progress
Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Ontology · Pessimism · Modern American Literature Studies · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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